Resources for More Learning about Executive Functions and ADHD
Everything You Never Knew About the ADHD Brain - Alice Kravitz, Phys. D. Updated May 22, 2024. ADDitudeMag.com. Uses an analogy of cars and intersection to explain how signals and messages in the brain can overload the area of the brain that handles executive functioning and the impacts on regulating attention, impulsivity, emotions, and other behaviors.
What is Executive Function and Why Do We Need It? - How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe. Posted March 23, 2021, with correction noted in video notes. Under five minute video with overview of executive functions, how they show up in daily life, where some people may have different experiences of their executive functions.
Your Brain’s Not Broken, Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD - Tamara Rosier Ph.D. Book is available in most libraries, and as an audiobook. A companion workbook was released January 2025.
Impulsivity and the ADHD Brain: Neural Networks - Janice Rodden and Joel Nigg, Ph.D. Updated February 27, 2024. ADDitudeMag.com. Short article and video explaining how brains with ADHD work differently when dealing with impulsive signals and messages.
My Mouth is a Volcano - Julia Cook. Children’s book about interrupting. Here it’s read aloud on YouTube. One of many books out there that can start conversations with young kids (of all neurotypes) about impulse.
Tilt Parenting - loads of information about parenting children with neurodifferences. This link will take you to their recommended reading, podcast list.
How to Keep House While Drowning: A gentle approach to cleaning and organizing - KC Davis, LPC. Written by a person with neurodiversities, this book is written with very short chapters that can be read in any order (or listened to as an audiobook). This book centers the person and their well-being. Living spaces exist to serve the person, not the other way around.
Silent Fidgets and Movement (listicle) - Elizabeth Broadbent. September 17, 2021. ADDitude Mag. List of fidgets and seat accommodation supports for children and students, with some ideas that could be used for adults.
General Info about the Brain and Neuroscience
2-Minute Neuroscience by Marc Kingman, Ph.D. Short videos explaining aspects of neuroscience. Can be helpful in learning about specific structures like neurons, prefrontal cortex, and functions of systems in the brain. He also wrote a book, Your Brain, Explained that is good for general curiosity about neuroscience, the brain, and experiences of emotion.
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Employees with Autism Find New Ways to Navigate the Workplace - Steven Kurutz, July 9, 2024. NYTimes.com
Your Brain’s Not Broken, Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD - Tamara Rosier, Ph.D. Book is available in most libraries, and as an audiobook.
How to ADHD - Jessica McCabe. YouTube channel with many topics that explain the experience of having ADHD and strategies to support daily living. McCabe also wrote a book, How to ADHD.
Brains On Podcast: What is ADHD? This kids-oriented podcast has host Molly Bloom talking with people who have ADHD. A helpful entry into the conversation with kids about neurodiversity. Link has transcript as well as audio.
Understood.org - Nonprofit online resources for people with neurodiversities and those who want to understand more.
Manualof.me - online resource that provides a way for people to describe and communicate working preferences, environments where they are at their best, and how they prefer to collaborate and engage with others. For individuals and teams.